Where a pension benefit would, but for its suspension under subsection 35(3), be payable to a person immediately before the commencement of a prescribed half - year, that pension benefit shall, for the purposes of this Part, be deemed to have been payable to that person immediately before the commencement of that prescribed half - year but any increase in the rate of that pension benefit by virtue of this Part does not take effect in respect of any part of that period of suspension.